Deviant Behavior

Papers
(The median citation count of Deviant Behavior is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Toward a Universal Definition of Child Sexual Grooming28
Bullying Victimization, Negative Emotions, and Digital Self-Harm: Testing a Theoretical Model of Indirect Effects21
Gender and White-Collar Crime: Convenience in Target Selection20
A Crime Script Analysis of Counterfeit Identity Document Procurement Online19
Testing Convenience Theory for White-collar Crime: Perceptions of Potential Offenders and Non-offenders17
Breaking Lockdown during Lockdown: A Neutralization Theory Evaluation of Misbehavior during the Covid 19 Pandemic16
Exploring Radical Right-Wing Posting Behaviors Online15
Polyamory Is Deviant – But Not for the Reasons You May Think15
Mass Shooting Outcomes: A Comparison of Completed, Attempted, Failed, and Foiled Incidents in America14
School Climate, Bystanders’ Responses, and Bullying Perpetration in the Context of Rural-to-Urban Migration in China14
Predicting Online Target Hardening Behaviors: An Extension of Routine Activity Theory for Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and Techniques13
The Role of Morality and Self-Control in Conditioning the Criminogenic Effect of Provocation. A Partial Test of Situational Action Theory13
Hunter or Prey? Exploring the Situational Profiles that Define Repeated Online Harassment Victims and Offenders13
Making America Safe Again: Public Support for Policies to Reduce Terrorism12
Quantity or Quality?: Assessing the Role of Household Structure and Parent-Child Relationship in Juvenile Delinquency12
Tinder Tales: An Exploratory Study of Online Dating Users and Their Most Interesting Stories12
Cybercrimes on the Streets of the Netherlands? An Exploration of the Intersection of Cybercrimes and Street Crimes11
Working for God: Religion and Occupational Crime and Deviance11
Stress Coping Strategies as Mediators: Toward a Better Understanding of Sexual, Substance, and Delinquent Behavior-Related Risk-Taking among Transition-Aged Youth11
Malicious Spam Distribution: A Routine Activities Approach11
Exposure to Cyber Victimization: Results from a Swiss Survey10
Attorney Fraud in the Law Firm: A Case Study of Crime Convenience Theory and Crime Signal Detection Theory10
Examining the Uncharted Dark Web: Trust Signalling on Single Vendor Shops10
The Denier in Chief: Faith in Trump and Techniques of Neutralization in a Pandemic10
Racial Sympathy and Support for Capital Punishment: A Case Study in Concept Transfer9
Triggered by Defeat or Victory? Assessing the Impact of Presidential Election Results on Extreme Right-Wing Mobilization Online9
Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale– Revised (PPTS-R): Empirical Investigation of Construct Validity and Dimensionality in a Forensic and Non-Forensic Sample9
The Victim-Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence: Considering the Role of Self-control9
An Assessment of Hitmen and Contracted Violence Providers Operating Online9
From Chads to Blackpills, a Discursive Analysis of the Incel’s Gendered Spectrum of Political Agency8
Citizen Willingness to Report Wildlife Crime8
Childhood Trauma, Problematic Drug Use and Coping8
‘Going Missing’ as a Maladaptive Coping Behavior for Adults Experiencing Strain8
The Fewer Insider Poachers, the More Normative Compliance: Clues for Managing Poaching in the Shellfish Sector8
Explaining Victim Impact from Cyber Abuse: An Exploratory Mixed Methods Analysis8
Self-Control, Cyberbullying, and the Moderating Effect of Opportunity8
Exclusionary School Discipline during Childhood and Adolescent Police Encounters7
Neighborhood Effects on Crime in San Francisco: An Examination of Residential, Nonresidential, and “Mixed” Land Uses7
Abusive Supervision and Suicidal Ideation: The Potential Role of Meaning in Life7
Assessing the Relationship between Lifestyle Routine Activities Theory and Online Victimization Using Panel Data7
“Tattooing in the Age of Instagram”7
The Profile of Ponzi Scheme Victims in China and the Characteristics of Their Decision-making Process7
Crafting Credible Homicide Narratives: Forensic Technoscience in Contemporary Criminal Investigations7
Victims and Perpetrators of Cyber Harassment: The Role of Power and Control and the Use of Techniques of Neutralization7
Offending Concentration on the Internet: An Exploratory Analysis of Bitcoin-related Cybercrime7
Women’s Involvement in the Drug Trade: Revisiting the Emancipation Thesis in Global Perspective7
(Dys)functional Cognitive-Behavioral Coping Strategies of Teachers to Cope with Stress, Anxiety, and Depression7
Immediate and Neighborhood Contextual Effects on Intentional, Accidental, and Fatal Drug Overdoses in a Non-Urban Jurisdiction7
The Anxiety of the Pandemic: Binge-watching, Splurging, Sexting, Hooking Up, and Masturbating among College Students6
Troubling Claims of Normalization: Continuing Stigmas within Michigan’s Medical Cannabis Community6
A Community-level Test of General Strain Theory (GST) in Mexico6
The Role of Family Structure and Family Processes on Adolescent Problem Behavior6
Examining Membership of Dutch Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs and Its Association with Indqividual Criminal Careers6
Normalizing Deviants: Notes on the De-Stigma Trend6
Hells Angels, Head Hunters and the Filthy Few: The History of Outlaw Bikers in Aotearoa New Zealand6
Ex Malo Bonum: Ambiguity in Stories of Organized Crime6
General Strain Theory and Corruption among Grassroot Chinese Public Officials: A Mixed-method Study6
Evaluation of Random Forest in Crime Prediction: Comparing Three-Layered Random Forest and Logistic Regression6
‘Bali over the Counter’: Exploring the Overseas Use and Acquisition of Anabolic-androgenic Steroids6
Crazy, Weak, and Incompetent: A Directed Content Analysis of Self-Injury Stigma Experiences6
How Sexual Racism and Other Discriminatory Behaviors are Rationalized in Online Dating Apps5
“That’s Just What You Do”: Applying the Techniques of Neutralization to College Hazing5
An understudied population? Exploring the factors associated with fear of crime in a semi-rural environment5
A Comparative Content Analysis of Pre-Internet and Contemporary Child Sexual Abuse Material5
Gender and Crime: Convenience for Pink-Collar Offenders5
Poaching of Domestic Protected Species in China: Using Legal Cases to Understand the Poaching of Wild Boars5
Following Heavenly Orders: Heroic Deviance and the Denial of Responsibility in Narratives of Rescue5
“Everybody Needs Their Story to Be Heard”: Motivations to Participate in Research on LGBTQ Criminal Offending5
Social Concern as a Means of Understanding the Risk of Workplace Deviance5
Recruiting money mules on instagram: a qualitative examination of the online involvement mechanisms of cybercrime5
Mechanisms of Perceived Social Norms: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Morality and Outcome Expectations on Prescription Drug Misuse in the Working Population5
The Cult of Corruption: Reframing Organizational Frameworks of Police Corruption from a Cultic Perspective5
The Role of Perceived Injustice and Need for Esteem on Incel Membership Online5
Paranormal Activity: Self-control Theory and Belief in the Paranormal5
Market Demand, Routine Activity, and Illegal Fishing: An Empirical Test of Routine Activity Theory in Iran5
Compositional and Contextual Associations of Social Capital and Fear of Crime5
The Role of Sex on Officer Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: An Empirical Analysis of Mechanisms of Intimate Partner Violence4
Tattoos in the Wake of Trauma: Transforming Personal Stories of Suffering into Public Stories of Coping4
The Makings of a Terrorist: Continuity and Change Across Left-, Right- and Jihadist Extremists and Terrorists in Europe and North-America, 1960s-Present4
A Comparative Study of Parenting Practices and Juvenile Delinquency between China and the United States4
Screening for dark personalities in Portugal: Intra- and interpersonal correlates, reliability and invariance of the Short Dark Tetrad Portuguese version4
A Tale of Three Spectrums: Deviating from Normative Treatments of Sex and Gender4
More than a Joke: White Supremacist Humor as a Daily Form of Resistance4
The Impact of Anti-COVID-19 Measures on Mexico City Criminal Reports4
Public Opinion about America’s Opioid Crisis: Severity, Sources, and Solutions in Context4
Adolescent Porn Viewing and Religious Context: Is the Eye Still the Light of the Body?4
Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime: The Role of Violent and Property Crime, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Prior Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime4
Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathy in Incarcerated Youth: An Investigation with a Focus on Social Anxiety4
Crime Signal Detection Theory: Two Case Studies of the Five-Stage Model from Observer to Whistleblower4
Ethical Decisions between the Conflicting Priorities of Legality and Group Loyalty: Scrutinizing the “Code of Silence” among Volunteer Firefighters with a Vignette-Based Factorial Survey3
Sugaring as a deviant career: Modes of entering sugar relationships and social stigmas3
What Does the Personification of Love and Sex Dolls Explain about Doll Owners?3
Modeling the Theoretical Structure of Deviant Convenience in White-Collar Crime3
The Role of Family Support in Gay and Lesbian Individuals’ Experiences of Sexual Identity-Based Discrimination, Harassment, and Violence: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory3
“Creative Non-compliance”: Complying with the “Spirit of the Law” Not the “Letter of the Law” under the Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions3
Polarizing Moral Panics: A Theory and Its Application to the Refugee Crisis in Poland3
An Integrated Model of Athletes’ PED Use: A Test of Low Self-Control, Opportunity, Deviant Peer Associations, and Control Deficit3
Tattooed Individuals in a Community: Motivations and Identities3
Citizen Self-Presentation and Aggression in Ticket Fining Events: A Video Observational Study3
The Effects of Classroom Anger, Strain, and Negative Emotions on Delinquency among Vocational School Students in China3
Child Abuse Myths are Pedophilic Myths: Cognitive Distortions are Stronger in Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses Diagnosed with Pedophilia Compared to Those Without Such Diagnosis3
Strain & Gain: From Deprivation to Innovation within Restricted Housing Units3
Impact of Social Concern on Cyberbullying Perpetration in Iran: Direct, Indirect, Mediating, and Conditioning Effects in Agnew’s Social Concern Theory3
Carbon Capture, Employment, and Coming Home from Prison3
Parental Harsh Discipline and Cyberbullying Perpetration among Chinese College Students: Why and When are They Related?3
Geeks and Newbies: Investigating the Criminal Expertise of Online Sex Offenders3
Cyberbullying against Rivals: Application of Key Theoretical Concepts Derived from Situational Action Theory3
A Comparison between Indoor and Outdoor Rape Suspects in Sweden3
Discrimination and Risky Sexual Behavior, Substance Use, and Suicidality among Transgender Individuals3
The Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: Psychosocial Risk Factors and Hong Kongers’ Attitudes toward Violence3
I Did It, But…: Exploring DUI Offender Deviance Rationalization in the Digital Age3
An Examination of the Differential Impacts of Social Bonds and Organized Crime Affiliation on Male and Female Youth Street Gang Members’ Delinquency2
Adolescent Killers: Using Two Timeline Methods to Map Life Histories of Adolescents that Kill2
Exploring the Influence of Sociodemographic Backgrounds on Money Mule Recruitment Types in South Korea: An Analysis of Probabilities from Machine Learning Classifiers2
A Study of the Inmate Code of Conduct in Spanish Prison2
Developmental Trajectories and Predictors of Delinquent Peer Association2
The Irredeemable? How Men Convicted of Sexual Offenses Reflect and Reconcile Redemption and Condemnation Scripts on the Path to Desistance2
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise2
Peer Association and Routine Activities in Sex Worker Patronage among Male Migrant Workers2
The General Theory of Crime Revisited: Comparing the Relative Effects of Parental Responsiveness and Parental Behavioral Control on Aggressive and Nonaggressive Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence2
A Scoping Review and Qualitative Investigations to Develop A Workplace Deviance Typology2
“Is This Really Our Problem?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Black Americans’ Misconceptions about Suicide2
The Long Road to Probation Completion: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effect of Life Events on Re-Arrest among Probationers2
How Mafia-Like Bureaucratic Cartels or Thieves in Suits Run Corruption Inside the Bureaucracy, or How Gover2
Youth Gangs and Victimization: An Investigation of the Impact of Gang Dynamics on Experiences of Victimization2
Good People Commit Bad Deeds Together: A Factorial Survey on the Moral Antecedents of Situational Deviance in Peer Groups2
Exploration of Prosecutor Experiences with Non-consensual Pornography2
Accelerators, Amplifiers, and Conductors: A Model of Tertiary Deviance in Online White Supremacist Networks2
“It’s What I Do that Defines Me”: Real Life Superheroes, Identity, and Vigilantism2
A COVID-19 Public Health Silver Lining? Reductions in Driving under the Influence Arrests and Crashes in Miami-Dade County2
A Life History Approach on Risk-taking Behaviors Moderated by Gender in Young Adult Spaniards2
“I Know a Guy and He’s Got Guns Galore”: Accessing Crime Guns in the Australian Illicit Firearms Market2
Lifestyle-Exposure Theory as a Framework to Analyze Victimization of People Experiencing Homelessness2
The Symbolic Boundary Work of Incels: Subcultural Negotiation of Meaning and Identity Online2
Childhood Adversities and Individual Responsibility as Explanations for Criminality in Incarcerated Young Men’s Narratives2
Pedophile Hunters and Performing Masculinities Online2
Money Mules and Cybercrime Involvement Mechanisms: Exploring the Experiences and Perceptions of Young People in the Netherlands2
The Impact of Deviant Social Media Influencers and Consumer Characteristics on Purchasing Counterfeit Goods2
“Wild in My Eyes”: An Analysis of Narratives and Narrative Identities among Diverse Drug Users2
What Took You so Long? An Examination of Reporting Time and Police Misconduct Complaint Dispositions2
Effects of Smartphone Addiction, Social Media Addiction and Fear of Missing Out on University Students’ Phubbing: A Structural Equation Model2
Best Served Cold: Vengeful Attitudes and Violence among Finnish Adolescents2
To Speed or Not to Speed: Applying Situational Action Theory to Speeding Behavior2
Folk Devils or Moral Entrepreneurs? Gap Bridging in the Social Studies of Pro-ana Communities2
Engagement with Female-oriented Male–Male Incest Erotica: A Comparison of Sinophone and Anglophone Boys’ Love Fandom2
Virtue Locales: An Exploratory Study of a New Criminological Concept2
IStillSuck at Everything: The Generality of Failure and Future Arrest2
Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Parents? An Explorative and Qualitative Study of Parents’ Disposition Towards Children’s Involvement in Cybercrimes2
How does sanctioning context affect moral emotions and conformity? An examination of criminal identity negotiation in courts and restorative justice conferences1
“Successful” Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime1
Not All Deviance is Criminal: Deviance in Everyday Life and the Development of a Non-Criminal Deviance Scale1
Principiis Obsta: Strategies of Narrative Resistance to Italian Organized Crime Governance1
The Impact of Defendant Gender and Attractiveness on Juror Decision-Making in a Sexual Offense Case1
Parental Management on Juvenile Delinquency through Low Self-control And Misperception1
Horror, Experimentation and Enhanced Interrogation1
Introduction to Deviance, The Undead: Contemporary Deviancy and Social Movements, A Special Issue1
How do People Betray in Relationships? Understanding the Process of Infidelity in Dating Relationships1
Anticipated Stigma and Self-Racialization: From Alcohol Flush Reaction to Panethnic Asian Glow1
Exploring the Motivations Associated with the Poaching and Trafficking of Amur Tigers in the Russian Far East1
Varieties of Violence in Street Culture1
“From Stacys to Foids, a Discursive Analysis of the Incel’s Gendered Spectrum of Political Agency”1
Tax Evasion and Benefit Fraud: A Study of the Use of Techniques of Neutralization1
The Group Nature of Academic Dishonesty & Diffusion of Responsibility in Online Student Chat Groups1
Sharenting in Digital Society: Exploring the Prospects of an Emerging Moral Panic1
Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap1
Immigration, Criminal Involvement, and Violence in the U.S.: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III1
Achieved versus Ascribed Master Status in a Positive Deviance Profession1
Prioritise Propensity: A multimethod analysis of peer influence and school-based aggression1
The Paradoxes of Normalization: Cannabis as Nuisance Crime, Medicine, and Consumer Good in British Columbia Before and After Legalization1
A Longitudinal Study of Fan Aggression: A Test of General Strain Theory1
An Examination of Risk Profiles among Justice-Involved Girls: Do Race and Place Matter?1
A Triad of Physical Masculinities: Examining Multiple ‘Hegemonic’ Bodybuilding Identities in Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid (AAS) Online Discussion Groups1
“Soldiers of the Faith”: A Comparative Analysis of White Power Songs and Islamic State Nasheeds1
“Can Normalization Save Society–or at Least the Sociology of Deviance?”1
Aggression in Soccer Fan’s: A Test of Akers’ Social Learning Theory1
Neutralizations, Altercasting, and Online Romance Fraud Victimizations1
Commercial Sex or Romance? Men’s Sexual Scripts in Compensated Dating1
Exploring How Interactions between Race and Social Bonds Influence Substance Use: Findings from a Predominately Black Juvenile Sample1
What Makes People Reoffend? Predictors of Reconviction – A 2-year Longitudinal Study1
What are They Talking About? Dislocations Between Institutional Narratives and On-Field Sports actors’ Perspectives on Match-Fixing1
Homelessness during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Exploratory Study in Switzerland1
The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies1
Predictors of Prescription Drug Misuse among High School Students in the United States1
Disparate Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence Intervention: A Preliminary Investigation of Participant Outcomes across Two Community-based Programs1
Illegal Wildlife Trades and Ecological Consequences: A Case Study of the Bird Market in Fereydunkenar, Iran1
Dine and Dash: An Exploratory Application of Three Criminological Theories1
Fifty Shades of Leather and Misogyny: An Investigation of Anti-Woman Perspectives among Leathermen1
Notice of Duplicate Publication – Negative Affective Responses to Stress among Urban Police Officers: A General Strain Theory Approach1
What Counts as “Violence?” Semantic Divergence in Cultural Conflicts1
Age-faking and match-fixing: how table tennis trainers and players face gold-medal pressure in China1
Sexual Harassment among Male and Female Public Accountants: An Exploratory Study1
Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale: Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance Among a Portuguese Sample1
Convenience Theory and Cybercrime Opportunity: An Analysis of Online Cyber Offending1
Mediating the Worst of Both Worlds Effect with Facets of Criminal Thought Process: Moral Neutralization, Cognitive Impulsivity, and Their Interaction1
Examining the Effects of Life Expectancy and Expectations for Future Health on Adolescent Suicidal Behavior1
What Money Can Do: Examining the Effects of Rewards on Online Romance Fraudsters’ Deceptive Strategies1
Match-Fixing in European Sports: Attitudes and Experiences1
Reciprocating Desire in China: A Comparative Approach between High-end and Low-end Sex Workers and Their Clients1
Deviance and Ethical Considerations in Online Biohacking Communities1
Convenience in White-Collar Crime: A Case Study of Unknown Perpetrator at Popcorn Time1
Empirical Testing of an Integrated Criminological Theory: The Case of Deductive Convenience for White-Collar Offenders1
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